Re: Bruno's argument

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:21:50 -0700

Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> Le Vendredi 21 Juillet 2006 22:40, Brent Meeker a écrit :
>
>>Quentin Anciaux wrote:
>>
>>>Le Vendredi 21 Juillet 2006 22:08, Brent Meeker a écrit :
>>>
>>>>No, the hypothetical was stronger than that: it was that I knew exactly
>>>>how your brain worked to the degree that I could make one.
>>>
>>>You could know everything on how my brain works without being ever able
>>>feeling being me... And I repeat if you could then you would be me by
>>>definition. Me is the only one able to feel being me... It is non-sense
>>>to claim otherwise, what ever you could know on the external working and
>>>behavior of myself.
>>
>>As I understood the question was whether we could ever know how another
>>person/brain/alien felt - not whether we could experience their feeling.
>
>
> But in this case what is the difference between knowing how and having the
> experience ?

Seems to me there's a lot of difference between knowing how to shoot myself in the foot and having
the experience of doing so.

>If you could know how then you should be able to recreate the
> experience for yourself and feel the feeling of being me ;) Then it means you
> are me

If I do it or if I know how?

Brent Meeker

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